Comments on: Tech Confessional #1

By: chris burke

chris burke — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:00:35 +0000

sounds like you’ve got an awesome team, and an awesome set up! i’m working on moving my church into a better set up… lights, and all that fun stuff.. it’s taking time, but we’re getting there.. managed to get a decent sound system out of them.. next will be lighting! then some better video stuff!!!

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:53:18 +0000

Klampert, yes there are clip mics designed for cello. We just don’t own one. Been experimenting with what was available to me. One of our staff members had those two mics sitting in his office.

By: klampert

klampert — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:50:48 +0000

great stuff man…uh…KEEP DOING THIS!

aren’t there like clip on style mics specifically designed for cello?

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:43:30 +0000

Russ, I’d say the cheapest adequate fix would be to place a microphone in the back of your live room and sent it ONLY to the overflow, if that is possible. It will pick up a lot of the life of the room and send it over. It will “hear” the reverb and all that. Of course it adds challenges because you then will have to hear it AND the room ambience in the overflow room from the system at the same time. It should at least be a cheap trial run.

Do you have an effects unit in the live room on vocals that you can add to aux 6 also? Certainly that would make a difference.

By: Russ Hutto

Russ Hutto — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:25:47 +0000

Sweet! Me want tech-fessionals regular!!

We cranked up our first overflow room yesterday which is brimming with tech possibilities.

We’ll be getting in a new camera and switcher this week. For the first “soft run” we just used our old crappy cam. It looked terrible on the overflow room screen. This week should be way better.

For sound we’re using our 6th aux on the board and just running audio straight out to another amp which powers 2 mains and a sub in the overflow room. Nothing fancy. However, the audio that we’re sending is pre-effects so it sounded kinda dry at the end of the service when our student coordinator sang and played guitar. Thoughts?

russhutto@gmail.com

By: Chris Moncus

Chris Moncus — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:12:22 +0000

Don’t beat yourself up too bad. Let the critique team do it for you.

Just kidding. Overall, things went well. A minute after each mistake I was already engaged with the next thing in the set. Your team does a good job.

By: Fred McKinnon

Fred McKinnon — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:10:36 +0000

Good run down Travis – wow, there were things happening (as always, I’m sure) that ya’ll were dealing with 80 ft away that we had no clue about.

One thing I noticed in watching the video Chris made was David’s table was left out during the 2nd service – complete with left over water bottles. I’m not sure how I missed that, but will be more aware of it in the future.

All in all, good day – see you at the service recap/planning mtg.